| Blues for We | ||||
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| Released | 1969 | |||
| Recorded | March 3, 1969 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Label | Impulse! | |||
| Producer | Bob Thiele | |||
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Blues for We is the third album by American blues guitarist Mel Brown recorded in 1969 for the Impulse! label. [1]
The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 2½ stars stating "The title notwithstanding, Blues for We largely abandons all pretense of conventional blues idioms to couch Brown in a series of soul-jazz contexts that draw heavily on mainstream R&B formulas; the problem is the material, which spans from avant-garde jazz to bubblegum pop and stretches even a player of Brown's considerable range far past the point of no return. Sometimes a record can be too ambitious for its own good, and the reach of Blues for We definitely exceeds its grasp – given the choice to pursue any number of directions, Brown sets off in all of them, and loses himself in the process". [2]
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